the meaning of the poem is that no one can expect death as it appears in our lives and we have to accept that as human beings we should only focus on the present time and not dwell on the future such as thinking of when your life will end
alliteration, allusion, antagonist, characterization, conflict, connotation, denotation, figure-of-speech, flashback, foreshadowing, hyperbole, imagery,irony, metaphor, oxymoron, personification, points-of-view, plot (narrative), a protagonist, the setting (the garden), simile, symbol(s), and the overall theme.
''dressed like a Spanish waiter'' ''thin as a scythe he stood there'' or basically anything with the words ''like'' or ''as''
i'm not going to tell you, you have to read the story :)
thin as a scythe
the gardener encounters death
to assemble memory or a thought
Quel beau jardin de roses! ~ What a beautiful rose garden!
A crimson rose
The setting is called New Pretty Town, but there are other little settings!
There are 2 sentence fragments, which are: A When we stopped by the garden (what then?) Example: When we stopped by the garden, we found it was closed. D Stopping by the garden we saw (what, needs an object). Example: Stopping by the garden, we saw the vandalism done to the rose bushes. These two are correct as sentences. B Stop by the garden. (the subject You is assumed). C We stopped; she didn't. (Notice the semi-colon used to connect the two ideas.)
The poem incident in a rose garden was written by Donald Justice
An unspecified rose garden.
An unspecified rose garden.
garden
Death is unexpected.
the gardener encounters death
Red as a rose blind as a bat light As a feather
The rhyme scheme in "Incident in a Rose Garden" by Donald Justice is AABBCCDD. This means that the first and second lines rhyme, the third and fourth lines rhyme, and so on throughout the poem.
to assemble memory or a thought
There are two versions of "Incident in a Rose Garden" by Donald Justice. The first and original version consists solely of dialogue. However, Justice later added descriptive details to the poem, creating the second version.
death shows the gardener a picture to identify himself
the gardener encounters death